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Bookmark this pageA Man Called Hero (1999)
Director: Andrew Lau
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
The follow-up to Stormriders is based on an earlier comic by Ma Wing-Shing (a 150-part graphic novel, the most influential ever published in HK), but it minimises the sword'n sorcery aspects in an apparent effort to go beyond the earlier film. Instead it goes for an Ellis Island storyline about indentured Chinese labourers in the New World and the struggle to establish a New York Chinatown, with a brief prologue in China and a flashback to Japan to cover the mystic kung-fu and clan leadership bases. But the script makes little geographical, chronological or dramatic sense and the digitally effected fight scenes are the only real reason to watch, although the climactic duel on the Statue of Liberty is less impressively visualised than two scraps with ninja.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Andrew Lau
Producer: Manfred Wong, Barbie Tung
Cast: Ekin Cheng, Kristy Yang, Nicholas Tse, Shu Qi, Francis Ng, Yuen Biao, Jerry Lamb, Anthony Wong full cast
Genre(s): Fantasy
Duration: 105 mins
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